3/2/15 Port Douglas to Sydney

Today was a travel day so right after breakfast, we boarded the coach for the hour trip to Cairns.  This time we could see the sugar cane fields and the coast that we had traveled along in the dark the other day.  We had a coach trip around Cairns, which looks like a nice seaside city, before going to the airport.  We had a two and a half hour flight, dropped our things in our room and then headed en masse to the laundry down the street.  It was $10 a bag - wash, dry, and fold.  We will pick it up tomorrow morning.  We were told there was no laundry in the first hotel in New Zealand so wanted to make sure we had some clean clothes.  We then met Louise's husband, Bruce, back at the hotel and all went for an orientation walk around this side of the city.  We are about a kilometer from the harbor.  We ended up across the street from the hotel where we had a nice dinner.  We don't have unlimited access to the internet here so I will be unable to download pictures for a while.